Yahoo Denies It Plans Online Gambling Site
Published: Monday, February 28, 2005 Online-Casinos.com
YAHOO DENIES IT PLANS ONLINE GAMBLING SITE
eGaming Review report strongly
refuted
This week Yahoo! was quick to issue a denial that it has plans
to launch a real money poker room, as reported last week by eGaming Review.
Representatives for Yahoo! UK said it had not started development of a real
money poker site and had no plans to launch anything of that nature during 2005.
Industry sources had informed eGaming Review that Yahoo! had been in discussions
with software firms over sub licensing poker software. eGaming Review reported
that the firm had opted to develop the software in-house, which was backed up
by a well-placed source close to Yahoo! UK.
But Yahoo! denied any formal
talks had taken place, and said it was also not looking to develop any software
in-house.
It did confirm it had held informal talks with poker software
firms, but said there was “no special significance” to those talks.
And the firm insisted that for now it has no plans to launch any poker product
beyond its current play-for-fun offering.
Play-for-fun poker sits within
Yahoo!’s casual games channel and not in its skill gaming section as Yahoo!
regards it as a game of chance.
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